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Democratic Pollster Geoffrey Garin cites a related requirement: "In 1988, the watchword is sincerity. Does the candidate mean what he says? Is he leveling with me?" But neither Jimmy Carter's Sunday School platitudes nor Ronald Reagan's "Morning-in-America" syrup will suffice this time because voters have been disappointed too often...
...rival companies are working on similar substances. Among the possible competitors: the Frito-Lay division of PepsiCo (maker of Lay's potato chips and Fritos corn chips), CPC International (Mazola corn oil and Hellmann's mayonnaise) and the Lever Brothers subsidiary of Unilever (Imperial margarine and Mrs. Butterworth's syrup and pancake mixes...
Slate said he was referring to companies such as Coca-Cola, which considers itself divested because it sells its local distribution centers to Blacks, but still sells its syrup to the country...
...onetime rambling man with some mileage on him. Just now, like other New Hampshiremen in Mud Season, he feels entitled to be a touch grouchy. There was plenty of snow for cross- country skiing this winter on the logging roads around his big hillside house, but the maple-syrup season was no damned good at all, and then outrageous rains flooded nearby roads so that Keene and Concord were just about unreachable. Blackfly season is not more than 15 minutes away. Still, the sun is shining, just barely, and yes -- a sour grin -- even the music business is beginning...
...American Philosophical Society, in 1868, "the intellectual and imaginative faculties are raised to the highest point compatible with individual capacity." Doctors began prescribing opium- based concoctions for every malady from headache to skin rash. Respectable Victorian ladies calmed their babies with narcotic potions, such as Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup and Hooper's Anodyne, the Infant's Friend. Heroin, a morphine derivative, was sold legally at the turn of the century in drugstores and by mail-order catalogs and traveling salesmen...